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Oral Fluency in a Second Language: A Research Agenda for the Next Ten Years
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Foster, Pauline – Language Teaching, 2020
This paper reviews how the construct of oral fluency in a second language (L2) has been defined and researched over the last twenty-five years. The emerging picture is somewhat kaleidoscopic, as domains of cognitive, social, individual and linguistic influences on L2 speech have been opened up for study. L2 fluency research presents a wealth of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency